Shade holder



I L. w. ANDERSEN.

SHADE HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. :4. 191a.

Patented May 30,1922.

umreo stares LA RITZ w. ANDERSEN, or WATERBURYQ CONNECTICUT.

SHADE HOLDER.

Application filed September 14, 19 18. Serial No. 254,070.

To ail whom it may concern Be it known that I, LAURITZ W. ANDnRsEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Waterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Shade Holders, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawln s.

This invention relates generally to shade holdersand more particularly to a candle shade holder designed for properly supporting the shade around an incandescent lamp bulb and which is mounted upon the end of the candle stick.

The object of the invention is to provide an exceedingly simple and eflicient device which can be quickly and easily arranged upon the upper end of the socket and which can be employed for supporting various styles or designs of shades. Another object of the invention is to provide a device in which the incandescent lamp itself will serve to prevent the dislocation of the shade holder.

lVith these objects in view the invention consists of a collar adapted to be fitted upon the end of a socket, said collar having arms connected thereto and extending upwardly therefrom, these arms being resilient and so spaced and shaped as to receive an incandescent lamp therebetween, the upper ends of said arms being shaped for engagement with a ring or annulus carried by or constituting a part of the shade to be supported about the lamp. The invention consists also in certain details of construction hereinafter fully described and-set forth in the appended claim.

In the drawing forming a part of this specification, Fig. l is a view showing the practical application of my invention; Fig. 2 is a detail perspective view of the collar and lower portions of the arms connected thereto; and Fig. 3 is a detail sectional view showing the manner of connecting the said arms to the collar.

In the practical embodiment of my invention I employ a thin sheet metal collar A of such size that it will fit snugly over the end of the electric lamp socket B. This collar A is formed with an inwardly projecting flange A at its upper end and adjacent its lower end this collar is formed with an annular groove or bead A which is adapted to Specification of Letters Patent. Patented May 30,

engage the annular bead B the socket, this being the usual construction of socket. The collar is preferably provided with a series of slots A extending through the beaded or grooved portion and formed upon approaching the upper end of the collar,

these slots imparting the desired degree of resiliency to the collar as a whole and ren-- otherwise. These arms are preferably three in number and extend upwardly and outwardly and then inwardly and at their upby soldering or per ends are hooked as shown at C in order to engage the ring or annulus D connected by arms D extending from a ring D which constitutes a part of the shade'E. The arms C are so spaced as to provide ample-room for the introduction of the incandescent lamp F and being arranged at equidistant points upon the collar, their ends will engage and support the shade at equidistant points thereby maintaining the shade level at all times.

In operation the collar is first placed upon the socket and the lamp is then screwed into the socket and when said lamp is properly attached to the socket it will serve as a means to prevent the dislocation of the collar upon the socket as the lower end of the lamp will engage or approach the flanged portion of the collar.' The hooked ends of the resilient arms are then brought into engagement upon the interior of the ring or annulus connected to the shade and in this manner the shade is held about and above the lamp in a particularly level position.

In order to detach the shade it is only necessary to slightly converge the resilient sup-l porting arms sufliciently to disengage them from the ring or annulus of the shade which is then free to be removed. It is preferred to use this type of holder in connection with the annulus connected to the shade in the manner shown but it will of course be under stood that said ring or annulus can be connected to the shade in any suitable manner and in fact can be dispensed with so long as the shade has an annulus or annular portion with which the hooked ends of the arms can be brought into engagement. c

Having thus described my invention, what 5 I claim is z- A device of the kind described comprising 7 a slotted and grooved sheet metal collar having an inwardly projecting flange and a plurality of resilient wire arms extending 10 therefrom at spaced intervals, the free ends signature.

- LAURITZ W. ANDERSEN. 

